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Ysalte

the god sponsored by the Nebulars

Nebular-sponsored god who marked Louis for death and was killed by a card-bound Paz.

Story so far

Ysalte was a god sponsored by "those weirdo Nebulars". When Louis put down Sister Ines, Ysalte marked him for death — a sentence that would ordinarily be the end of a crawler.

It did not stick, because Ysalte was killed first. Paz, who had by then been turned into a card, was the one who did it. Quasar calls this "luckily for Louis" and moves straight on, but he flags something else: after that god died, something happened that only the viewers saw, something he says is "going to be a big deal later". It has to do with one of the ladies in the party, and he cannot remember which.

Appearance

Not described; a god of sufficient standing to sponsor a death-mark and sufficiently mortal to be killed by a crawler on a card.

Role

The eighth floor's slain deity, whose death-mark on Louis was voided by her own killing — and whose death concealed something the audience saw and the party did not.

Relationships

Louis — Marked him for death for killing Sister Ines.
Paz — The card-bound crawler who killed her.
Nebulars — Her sponsors, whom Quasar dismisses as weirdos.

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